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| Yellow Warbler, Boundary Creek |
A month that started out just ducky, with a Garganey on its first day, lost a lot of its momentum when, after more than two years, COVID finally made its way into the Zirlin household. And it came in just as I always suspected it would: Shari caught it in New York (as best as we can figure) and infected me. Ironically, she was in New York to visit the last doctor she has there. We're quadrupled vaccinated, so the symptoms were mild yet lingering and annoying, like having a cold you can never shake. And while I tried to get out in the field as soon as I could, there was a stretch of days where I had no energy. Unfortunately, for me, that stretch included the days that Roseate Terns were showing up in numbers on Island Beach but there was just no way I could drag myself out there to chase them.
I spent a lot of time at my favorite cranberry bogs, Whitesbog and Jumping Brook, both before, during, and after (hopefully, I'm in the after stage), and they produced Least Bittern, Common Nighthawk, and Black-billed Cuckoo, all new for the year. While I was sitting in the house, bored, I got to thinking about how many cranberry bogs I traipse around and, as you can do in eBird, built a "patch list" of all of them to see what my total number of birds was. Impressive at 212 species. And since I like lists, they are:
Canada Goose National Guard Training Ctr
Mute Swan Sylvan Lake
Wood Duck Whitesbog
Garganey National Guard Training Ctr
Mallard National Guard Training Ctr
American Black Duck Whitesbog
Wild Turkey 35 Sunset Rd
Rock Pigeon Shark River Inlet
Mourning Dove 35 Sunset Rd
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 35 Sunset Rd
Black-billed Cuckoo Whitesbog
Common Nighthawk Whitesbog
Eastern Whip-poor-will 35 Sunset Rd
Chimney Swift Jumping Brook Preserve
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 35 Sunset Rd
Clapper Rail Great Bay Blvd
Sora Brig
Black-necked Stilt Manahawkin WMA
American Avocet Barnegat Lighthouse SP
American Oystercatcher Island Beach SP
Black-bellied Plover Island Beach SP
Semipalmated Plover Island Beach SP
Piping Plover Barnegat Lighthouse SP
Killdeer National Guard Training Ctr
Ruddy Turnstone Island Beach SP
Ruff Brig
Sanderling Island Beach SP
Least Sandpiper Jumping Brook Preserve
White-rumped Sandpiper Brig
Semipalmated Sandpiper Island Beach SP
Short-billed Dowitcher Island Beach SP
Spotted Sandpiper Island Beach SP
Greater Yellowlegs National Guard Training Ctr
Willet Great Bay Blvd
Lesser Yellowlegs National Guard Training Ctr
Laughing Gull Island Beach SP
Ring-billed Gull Belmar
Herring Gull Island Beach SP
Great Black-backed Gull Island Beach SP
Least Tern Great Bay Blvd
Gull-billed Tern Brig
Common Tern Island Beach SP
Forster's Tern Island Beach SP
Royal Tern Island Beach SP
Black Skimmer Great Bay Blvd
Double-crested Cormorant Island Beach SP
Brown Pelican Barnegat Lighthouse SP
Least Bittern Jumping Brook Preserve
Great Blue Heron Cranberry Bogs
Great Egret Cranberry Bogs
Snowy Egret Great Bay Blvd
Little Blue Heron Cranberry Bogs
Tricolored Heron Island Beach SP
Green Heron Whitesbog
Black-crowned Night-Heron Great Bay Blvd
White Ibis Great Bay Blvd
Glossy Ibis Island Beach SP
Black Vulture Rt. 70 Pemberton Twp
Turkey Vulture Cranberry Bogs
Osprey Island Beach SP
Cooper's Hawk Reeves Bogs
Bald Eagle Brig
Red-tailed Hawk Cranberry Bogs
Belted Kingfisher Island Beach SP
Red-headed Woodpecker South Park Rd
Red-bellied Woodpecker Burrs Mill Brook
Downy Woodpecker 35 Sunset Rd
Hairy Woodpecker Evert Trail
Northern Flicker Cranberry Bogs
Peregrine Falcon Cedar Bonnet Island
Eastern Wood-Pewee Island Beach SP
Acadian Flycatcher Double Trouble SP
Willow Flycatcher Island Beach SP
Eastern Phoebe Whitesbog
Great Crested Flycatcher 35 Sunset Rd
Eastern Kingbird Island Beach SP
White-eyed Vireo Island Beach SP
Yellow-throated Vireo Reeves Bogs
Warbling Vireo Colliers Mills WMA
Red-eyed Vireo Jumping Brook Preserve
Blue Jay 35 Sunset Rd
American Crow 35 Sunset Rd
Fish Crow Shark River Inlet
Carolina Chickadee 35 Sunset Rd
Tufted Titmouse 35 Sunset Rd
Northern Rough-winged Swallow Wesley Lake
Purple Martin Laurel Run Park
Tree Swallow Island Beach SP
Bank Swallow Burrs Mill Brook
Barn Swallow Island Beach SP
Cliff Swallow Wesley Lake
White-breasted Nuthatch Burrs Mill Brook
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Whitesbog
House Wren 35 Sunset Rd
Marsh Wren Great Bay Blvd
Carolina Wren Island Beach SP
European Starling Island Beach SP
Gray Catbird Island Beach SP
Brown Thrasher Island Beach SP
Northern Mockingbird Island Beach SP
Eastern Bluebird Cranberry Bogs
Veery Colliers Mills WMA
Wood Thrush Jumping Brook Preserve
American Robin Island Beach SP
Cedar Waxwing Whitesbog
House Sparrow Island Beach SP
House Finch 35 Sunset Rd
American Goldfinch 35 Sunset Rd
Grasshopper Sparrow Laurel Run Park
Chipping Sparrow 35 Sunset Rd
Field Sparrow Whitesbog
Seaside Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
Saltmarsh Sparrow Brig
Savannah Sparrow Jumping Brook Preserve
Song Sparrow 35 Sunset Rd
Swamp Sparrow Whitesbog
Eastern Towhee Island Beach SP
Yellow-breasted Chat Brig
Orchard Oriole Jumping Brook Preserve
Baltimore Oriole Burrs Mill Brook
Red-winged Blackbird Island Beach SP
Brown-headed Cowbird Whitesbog
Common Grackle National Guard Training Ctr
Boat-tailed Grackle Island Beach SP
Ovenbird Whitesbog
Worm-eating Warbler Evert Trail
Louisiana Waterthrush Evert Trail
Black-and-white Warbler Whitesbog
Prothonotary Warbler Evert Trail
Common Yellowthroat Island Beach SP
Hooded Warbler Colliers Mills WMA
American Redstart Island Beach SP
Yellow Warbler Island Beach SP
Pine Warbler 35 Sunset Rd
Prairie Warbler Whitesbog
Northern Cardinal Island Beach SP
Blue Grosbeak Laurel Run Park
Indigo Bunting Colliers Mills WMA
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| Baby Barn Swallows, Boundary Creek |
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